DVD of the month:
Harry Kupfer's Parsifal production (1992)
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Important years in Richard Wagner's life
1813 born in Leipzig
1834 Die Feen completed
1843 Holländer premiere
1845 Tannhäuser premiere
1850 Lohengrin premiere
1852 text of Rheingold and Walküre
1854 Das Rheingold completed
1856 Die Walküre completed
1859 Tristan completed
1865 Tristan premiere
in Munich
1868 Meistersinger premiere
1869 Das Rheingold premiere
1870 Die Walküre premiere
1871 Siegfried completed
1874 Götterdämmerung completed
1876 First Festival in Bayreuth
1882 Parsifal premiere
1883 Wagner dies in Venice
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Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983)
"Bayreuth
next day offered a sorry contrast: by 1912 the efforts to keep everything ’as
the Master had left it’ were wearing themselves
out; the theatre was dusty (curtains included), props shoddy, mise-en-scène
prehistoric, the chorus sang woefully out of tune, but the orchestra, and
many soloists were magnificent."